New Slingerlands ShopRite opening at end of month

The new Slingerlands ShopRite supermarket is going to open on Sept. 30.

The store is located at the new Vista Technology Campus on Route 85 in the town of Bethlehem, less than a mile from the Price Chopper, which is nearing completion of a major cosmetic overhaul.

PriceChopper says it is planning a Sept. 9 grand reopening of the Slingerlands store.

ShopRite will offer home delivery as it does at its other local stores, and PriceChopper says it is planning to offer home delivery from its Slingerlands store to these zip codes: 12186; 12067; 12054; 12159 and 12077.

Larry Rulison

7 Responses

I cannot wait….if only to see how Price Chopper FINALLY stops gouging customers…if you minus off the gas “savings” you have been getting at PC, you still have been overpaying on almost everything. Not that ShopRite is a panacea…but at least let there be some competition right in their backyard…When I moved to this area a decade ago, I could not believe how little choice there was..

So glad ShopRite is giving Price Chopper some direct competition. Suddenly there are more staff around and everyone is going out of their way to be helpful. Today 2 managers in suits thanked me for being in the store! How about lowering prices instead of raising them every other week? And assign additional staff at registers to bag…check out at Hannaford takes half the time because there are always baggers at each register. Pay attention, Price Chopper, a lot of customers will be voting with their feet. Deborah

It is great that the third ShopRite in the Albany-Schenectady area is finally opening September 30!!! Colonie should have their store done sometime in 2013. I fully agree that over a dozen more large ShopRite stores need to open in the greater Capital Region of NYS!! Places like East-North Greenbush, Clifton Park, Glenville, Latham, Ballston Spa, Saratoga Springs-Wilton, Amsterdam, Queensbury, and a variety of other locations will help bring great supermarket competition to the area!!! More jobs, more supermarket choices, even lower prices. ShopRite is making a great comeback this 2010s decade!!! Even Connecticut has some stores now as well!!

Why did shoprite leave the Albany area close to 20 years ago,
putting a LOT of Employees out of a job??
Shoprite Employees had a Union in the stores back then and I shopped there, to help support the Unions.
Are the shoprite stores Employees Union now?

Ask some of the former Employees if they are going to shop there,
I know one former Employee of shoprite who refuses to shop at shoprite.

I have not gone to any of them locally yet.
Seems like a bunch of PR Hype to me.

ShopRite, which operates about 230 stores in six states, isn’t new to the area. The chain’s parent, Wakefern Food Corp., operates a PriceRite store in Schenectady, and ShopRite had Capital Region markets before pulling out of the area in the 1980s.